The poor woman had troubles of her own to think about.

She kept turning her head towards Liza and was watching her with unaccountable terror, but she didn't even dare to think of getting up and going away until her daughter should get up.

In the meantime the captain wanted to slip away.

That I noticed.

There was no doubt that he had been in a great panic from the instant that Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch had made his appearance; but Pyotr Stepanovitch took him by the arm and would not let him go.
"It is necessary, quite necessary," he pattered on to Varvara Petrovna, still trying to persuade her.